Finnish Death Metallers FESTERDAY have been signed by Season Of Mist for the release of their debut album later this year. The band was formed in Pietarsaari, Finland in 1989 and released three demos in the following years, simply entitled ‘Demo I’ (1991), ‘Demo II’ (1992) and ‘Demo III’ (1992). Remastered versions of those demos have been released on the 2015 compilation "…The Four Stages Of Decomposition…". More about FESTERDAY at www.facebook.com/festerday
Spanish Death Metallers AVULSED have released their entire live video "Night Of The Living Deathgenerations" online at this location now. It was originally part of the band’s limited 25th anniversary 2CD / DVD live album "Night of the Living Deathgenerations" in a limited edition of 1.000 copies. More about AVULSED at www.facebook.com/1991avulsed
New England based Death Metallers SCALPEL will self-release their new album "Methods To Delusion on July 25, 2017. A promo video for the song ‘Labors Of Loathing’ is already available right here. The album was engineered by Colin Marston (GORGUTS) at Thousand Caves Studios and its tracklist reads like this: ‘The Cleaner’, ‘Labors Of Loathing’, ‘The Stink’, ‘Feeding The Worm’, ‘Interdelude’, ‘Methods To Delusion’, ‘The Woodsman (Part II)’, ‘Brooding In The Gloom’, ‘Lung Butter’ and ‘Intensified Festering’. For all additional SCALPEL information check out www.facebook.com/scalpelofficial
"Idolatry", the new album from Slovakia based brutal Death Metallers PERVERSITY, is available for streaming at this location now. It has been released via Metal Age Productions last month. For all further band information check out www.facebook.com/pages/perversity/50913049227
A full album stream of the self-titled seventh RESURRECTED album is available here. The album was recorded by Thomas Granzow at Catacomb Productions and mixed and mastered by Jörg Uken at Soundlodge Recording Studio in Germany. More about these German brutal Death Metallers at www.facebook.com/pages/resurrected/137193540156
Orange County, California based progressive Thrashers MADROST are currently streaming a new song entitled ‘Scorned’ at this location. It is taken from the band’s upcoming new full-length "The Essence Of Time Matches No Flesh" which will be released on June 27, 2017. It was recorded and mixed by Mark Rivas at Rivas Studios and produced by Mark Rivas and Tanner Poppitt. The mastering was done by Alan Douches of West West Side Studios and the cover art created by Tony Koehl (THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, PUTRID PILE, MALIGNANCY). A lyric video for the album’s opening track ‘Eyes Of The Deceit’ is available over here. More about MADROST at www.facebook.com/madrost
The "Across The Abyss" EP from Chile’s blackened Death Metallers SAMOT (originally released on tape format last year) will be re-released on CD by Ex Nihilo Music (www.facebook.com/exnihilocanada) in June this year, limited to 300 copies. "Across The Abyss" was recorded in the summer of 2016 at DM6 Studio in Santiago, Chile and contains the following four tracks: ‘Awakening’, ‘The Calling’, ‘Across The Abyss’ and ‘Whispers’. You can listen to the track ‘Across The Abyss’ here. All additional band information at www.facebook.com/samottheband
U.S. technical Death Metallers DECREPIT BIRTH have just released an in-the-studio video, in which they discuss the recording process of their upcoming fourth album "Axis Mundi". You can check out the video at this location. The album will be released on July 21, 2017 via Agonia Records (Europe / rest of the world) and Nuclear Blast Records (North America). More about DECREPIT BIRTH at www.decrepitbirth.net
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The self-titled debut full-length from US Death Metallers PIG’S BLOOD will be released on CD via Godz Ov War Productions at the end of June 2017. It was recorded in February of 2017 by Greg Wilkinson at Earhammer Studio and the cover artwork of the album was designed by the band’s bassplayer / vocalist Chris Ellis. You can already check out the track ‘Misanthrope Absolute’ at this location. The complete tracklist of "Pig’s Blood" reads like this: ‘Misanthrope Absolute’, ‘Iron Justice’, ‘Taste The Fucking Poison’, ‘Torches Of War And Retribution’, ‘Rats (This World Is A Sewer)’, ‘Death March Insanity’, ‘The Age Of Endless War’, ‘First Step In Making Things Right’, ‘Deniers Of The Root’ and ‘There Will Be No Law’. More about PIG’S BLOOD at www.facebook.com/commandmoreblood
In support of their appearance at Maryland Deathfest this upcoming weekend New Jersey based Death Metallers EX DEMENTIA have just released a first single from their upcoming fourth full-length "Crack The Coffin". You can check out ‘The Dripping Skull’ at this location. The complete tracklist of the album reads like this: ‘Trials And Exhumations’, ‘Crack The Coffin’, ‘The Dripping Skull’, ‘Hobb’s End’, ‘Dragged Down The Hole’, ‘Slaughter!’, ‘Sloven Blood Collection’, ‘Splattervision: Channel 3’ and ‘Skulls’ (THE MISFITS cover). The artwork was created by Jeff Zornow. More about EX DEMENTIA at www.exdementia.net or www.facebook.com/exdementia
Ottawa, Canada based old school Death Metallers DEAD SOUL ALLIANCE are offering their newest release "Slaves To The Apocalypse" for streaming and download at their bandcamp site now. For all further band information check out www.facebook.com/deadsoulalliance
On August 01, 2017 Xtreem Music will release "Neverending Trail Of Skulls", the second full-length of Italian Horror Death Metallers GRAVESITE. The album was recorded at Black Sun Studio between October 2016 and February 2017 and mastered by Daniel Lowndes at Resonance Sound Studio. The artwork was created by Matteo Zanella. The complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘Neverending Trail Of Skulls’, ‘Coffin Birth’, ‘Sewer Freaks’, ‘Global Disease Madness’, ‘Forced To Cannibalism’, ‘Atrofied Organs’, ‘Town Of The Reanimated’ and ‘Swallowed In Darkness’. You can already listen to the album’s title track ‘Neverending Trail Of Skulls’ here. More about GRAVESITE at www.facebook.com/gravesitedeathmetal
California based technical Death Metallers DECREPIT BIRTH will release their new album "Axis Mundi" on July 21, 2017 via Agonia Records (Europe / rest of the world) and Nuclear Blast Records (North America). The first single to be revealed from the record is entitled ‘Epigenic Triplicity’. You can check it out at this location. The album was recorded at three different studios over the course of a year and the cover artwork has been supplied by Dan Seagrave. Here’s the album’s full tracklist: ‘Vortex Of Infinity… Axis Mundi’, ‘Spirit Guide’, ‘The Sacred Geometry’, ‘Hieroglyphic’, ‘Transcendental Paradox’, ‘Mirror Of Humanity’, ‘Ascendant’, ‘Epigenetic Triplicity’, ‘Embryogenesis’, ‘Orion’, ‘Desprate Cry’ and ‘Infecting The Crypts’. For all additional DECREPIT BIRTH info check out www.decrepitbirth.net or www.facebook.com/decrepitbirth
Canadian Crossover Thrashers EPI-DEMIC have just released a video from their new album "Malformed Conscience". You can check out ‘Ruthless Ambition’ here. The album was released on April 14, 2017 via Horror Pain Gore Death Productions. It is streaming in its entirety at this location. For more information about EPI-DEMIC visit www.facebook.com/theplaguebegins13
German brutal Death Metallers ANASARCA have just released a lyric video for the song ‘Cannibal’ at this location. The track will appear on their upcoming new album "Survival Mode" which will be released on May 25, 2017 via Sevared Records (www.sevared.com). More about ANASARCA at www.facebook.com/anasarcadeathmetal or www.anasarca.de
Swedish Death Metallers DESULTORY will release their fifth and swansong album "Through Aching Aeons" on June 23, 2017 via Pulverised Records. It was recorded at Necromorbus Studio with Tore Stjerna (WATAIN, REPUGNANT, PORTRAIT, TRIBULATION) and the cover artwork was designed by French graphic artist Pierre-Alain D at 3mmi Design (KAMELOT, NECRODEATH). One of the new tracks (‘In This Embrace’) is already available for streaming at this location. The complete tracklist reads like this: ‘Silent Rapture’, ‘Spineless Kingdom’, ‘Through Aching Aeons’, ‘In This Embrace’, ‘Beneath The Bleeding Sky’, ‘Slither’, ‘Divine Blindness’, ‘Breathing The Ashes’ and ‘Our Departure’. For all additional DESULTORY information check out www.facebook.com/desultory-50447918404
Hammer Muzik will release "Perverse Dehumanized Dysfuctions", the sixth studio album from Turkish brutal Death Metallers CENOTAPH. The album will be released in the US via Sevared Records and via Coyote Records in Russia. It has been recorded, mixed and mastered at DTH Studios in Moscow, Russia and the artwork has been created by Toshihiro Egawa. The following tracks will appear on "Perverse Dehumanized Dysfuctions": ‘Rancid Gluttonous Morbid Obesity’, ‘Asphyxiated Embryonic Abnormalities’, ‘Parasitic Worms – Prenatal Cranial Deformation’, ‘Syndromes Of Deadly Endogenous Intoxication’, ‘Antagony Of Embriotomia’, ‘Multi-Organ Failure Epidemie’, ‘Dismembered Unborn Species’ and ‘Perverse Dehumanized Dysfunctions’. You can listen to ‘Syndromes Of Deadly Endogenous Intoxication’ over here. The band is now booking shows for an upcoming European tour in August / September 2017. More CENOTAPH at www.facebook.com/cenotaphtur
Swedish Black Metallers SVARTSYN are streaming ‘Black Thrones Of Death’ (a song from their upcoming new album "In Death") at this location now. The album will be released on June 09, 2017 via Agonia Records. It was recorded at Mortsella Studio in Belgium in March and December 2016 and in January 2017. The mix and mastering was done at Clintworks Studio (AMON AMARTH, 3 INCHES OF BLOOD, MISERY INDEX) and the cover artwork was created by Chadwick St John (ARCKANUM, HORNA, The Piper graphic novel). The following tracks will appear on the album: ‘Seven Headed Snake’, ‘Dark Prophet’, ‘With Death’, ‘Inside The White Mask’, ‘Wilderness Of The Soul’, ‘Black Thrones Of Death’ and ‘Exile In Death’. More about SVARTSYN at www.facebook.com/svartsyn666
Turkish Death Metallers PERSECUTORY will release their new album "Towards The Ultimate Extinction" on CD and MC at the end of June 2017 via Godz Ov War Productions. It was recorded, mixed and mastered by Erhan Kabakci and Can Gelgec at Jam Session Studios and the artwork was created by Alex Shadrin from Nether Temple Design. The title track is already streaming right here. The complete tracklist reads as follows: ‘Pillars Of Dismay’, ‘Towards The Ultimate Extinction’, ‘Till Relentless Salvation Comes’, ‘Along The Infernal Hallways’, ‘Awakening The Depraved Era’, ‘Hegemony Of The Ruinous Impurity’ and ‘Maelstroms Of Antireligious Chaos’. For all further information check out www.facebook.com/persecutory666
New Zealand’s HERESIARCH will release their debut full-length "Death Ordinance" via Dark Descent Records on July 07, 2017. The album was recorded by V.V. in early 2017 and mixed and mastered by C. Sinclair in Temple Of Sol studio. The artwork was created by Mistanthropic-Art. The following tracks will appear on "Death Ordinance": ‘Consecrating Fire’, ‘Storming Upon Knaves’, ‘Harbinger Ruination’, ‘The Yoke’, ‘Iron Harvest’, ‘Lupine Epoch’, ‘Righteous Upsurgence’ and ‘Desert Of Ash’. You can already check out the track ‘Storming Upon Knaves’ here. For more HERESIARCH information go to www.facebook.com/heresiarchcult
The vinyl re-issue of "Deathcult Barbaric Hell" from AMPÜTATOR is now streaming in its entirety at this location. It was originally released in 2007 on CD and cassette. The remastered vinyl version will be released on May 18, 2017 via Greyhaze Records. A promo video for ‘Rape Kill Annihilate’ can be found over here. For all further info and ordering details check out www.greyhazerecords.com